The semiconductor industry has an unmet and rapidly growing requirement
for fast nanometer SPICE accurate mixed-signal verification that is
practical for everyday use. Traditional co-simulation approaches have
accuracy, performance, capacity, and functionality limitations that make
them impractical to verify mixed-signal designs that combine massive
digital logic and high-performance analog circuitry. The leading AMS
simulator translates all analog circuitry to a Verilog-AMS
representation that analog designers did not create and do not
recognize. The result is a difficult-to-debug verification flow.

Analog FastSPICE AMS delivers fast mixed-signal verification with
nanometer SPICE accuracy that is straightforward to set-up and easy to
run. Design teams using AFS AMS are productive in hours rather than
weeks. The tool’s powerful configuration support enables arbitrarily
nesting of Verilog-AMS, Verilog-D, Verilog-A, and leading SPICE netlist
formats—all of which it runs without translation. AFS AMS combines the
world’s fastest, most accurate circuit simulator—Analog FastSPICE—with
any leading signoff Verilog HDL simulator to run the digital logic. The
result is superior accuracy, performance, and capacity that are
practical for everyday use.

“At Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited, we design very complex nanometer
mixed-signal SoCs that include processor cores, logic, and
high-performance mixed-signal circuitry. We are standardizing on AFS AMS
for mixed-signal verification of our complex nanometer-scale ICs,” said
Masaru Ito, Director Mixed-Signal and Analog Design Methodology
Development Department, Technology Development Division, Fujitsu
Semiconductor Limited. “AFS AMS is easy to setup for our analog and
digital designers, making it practical to use everyday. It delivers the
standard Analog FastSPICE nanometer SPICE accuracy and is more than 10x
faster than our previous AMS simulator. With AFS AMS we can verify our
complex mixed-signal designs much more thoroughly and accurately.”

AFS AMS is ideal for design teams that have been using limited
co-simulation flows, difficult AMS flows, or avoiding mixed-signal
simulation altogether because of its complexity. Analog designers are
able to continue working within their normal environment—either the
industry-leading analog design environment or the command line. They
simply specify their desired configuration and use their original
netlist. Likewise digital designers simply specify their desired
configuration and work with their original source in their normal
environment with their standard testbench, digital simulator, models,
debugging tools, etc.

“Many of our over 100 customers require improvements to their
mixed-signal verification flow,” said Ravi Subramanian, president and
CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. “With AFS AMS, we are proud to
deliver another key capability to the AFS Platform that enables our
customers to access the industry’s fastest nanometer SPICE-accurate
mixed-signal verification capability in a simple and compelling
use-model that will enable them to deliver superior products to market
significantly faster.”

The Analog FastSPICE Platform provides the world’s fastest circuit
verification for nanometer analog, RF, mixed-signal, and custom digital
circuits. Foundry certified to 20nm, the AFS Platform delivers nanometer
SPICE accuracy 5x-10x faster on a single core and >2x faster on
multicore systems versus any other simulator. For circuit
characterization, the AFS Platform includes the industry’s only
comprehensive silicon-accurate device noise analysis and delivers
near-linear performance scaling with the number of cores. For large
circuits, it delivers >10M-element capacity, the fastest
near-SPICE-accurate simulation, and the fastest, most accurate
mixed-signal simulation. Available licenses include AFS circuit
simulation, AFS Transient Noise Analysis, AFS RF Analysis, AFS AMS, and
AFS Nano SPICE.

About Berkeley Design Automation

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is the recognized leader in nanometer
circuit verification. The company combines the world’s fastest nanometer
circuit verification platform, Analog FastSPICE, with exceptional
application expertise to uniquely address nanometer circuit design
challenges. More than 100 companies rely on Berkeley Design Automation
to verify their nanometer-scale circuits. Berkeley Design Automation has
received numerous industry awards and is widely recognized for its
technology leadership and contributions to the electronics industry. The
company is privately held and backed by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture
Partners, Panasonic Corp., NTT Corp., IT-Farm, and MUFJ Capital. For
more information, visit http://www.berkeley-da.com.

Analog FastSPICE, AFS Nano, and WaveCrave are trademarks of Berkeley
Design Automation, Inc. Berkeley Design and BDA are registered
trademarks of Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. Any other trademarks or
trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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